Howdy, I'm trying to recreate a piece of music that I really liked by ear. I managed to get the beginning right by placing notes on the piano roll (it took me five hours, damn it), and for the percussion, I sampled two tracks (Take My Emptiness by David Oliver and Cow Cud is Twin by Aphex Twin) that roughly match the percussion heard in the track. However, I'm stuck on the chorus. As you can hear, it's a Saw lead synth that repeats the main melody with different notes and a different progression. However, I don't know what effects to put on the synth (compressor, saturation, chorus?) and, above all, what notes to play. Could someone help me with the difficulty I'm encountering? I'm working on Windows with Bandlab online and I use my computer keyboard to play the notes. Here is a link to what I've done so far and a link to the original music:
https://www.bandlab.com/revisions/848152cb-7ed7-f011-819b-6045bd3096b1?sharedKey=imZyLTEEcE-Gd8vsNhRK1A
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vWk3LQmXJ2Y&si=WG5w6d0j32lRZ5Nl
Submitted December 15, 2025 at 04:31AM by SamCkpris https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1pn1jlh/struggling_with_a_music_recreation/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Monday, December 15, 2025